Sisley Choi Sea-pui

Biography

Sisley Choi Sea-pui was born on 6 February 1991 in Hong Kong to a police officer father. She spent her childhood living in a police quarters in North Point, attending Precious Blood Primary School and St. Paul's Secondary School. At age 13, she left Hong Kong alone to study in New Zealand, completing her secondary education there, and later attended the University of Heidelberg in Germany to study ethnology, where she learned German. She returned to Hong Kong in 2013 to participate in the Miss Hong Kong Pageant and won the first runner-up title. Three months after her win, producer Zhang Qianwen cast her in the comedy drama "Officer Geomancer" as her first television role, after which she signed with TVB as a contracted artiste. In 2014, she appeared in "Noblesse Oblige", TVB's 47th anniversary drama series, playing a Muay Thai boxer. In 2015, she took on her first leading role in "Centaur" as an assistant accountant and cyclist, and made her film debut in "The Exorcist's Meter" alongside Anthony Zhang and Louis Cheung. Choi achieved major recognition in 2017 when she won the "Most Popular Female Character" award at the TVB Anniversary Awards for her role as "Chao Ching-mui" in "Blind Justice", followed by the "Best Actress" award at the same ceremony in 2020, earning her the title of TV Queen. She acknowledged that after receiving criticism for her performance, she decided at her own expense to study acting under Anthony Wong and Olivia Yan, a move she credited as her first real breakthrough in acting.